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the navy's big worry? women are still not confident their reports will be taken seriously. >> the chain of command is part of the problem. you are required to report the incident to your chain of command. oftentimes the assailant is your commander. >> reporter: at west point and the air force academy, the number of sexual assault incidents reported rose as well. while disturbing, the survey did find the at these schools women appear to be more comfortable going ahead and reporting harassment and assault, though there were many cases of unreported incidents. and the military is cracking down on senior officers. an army general is scheduled to go to trial in the coming weeks on charges he committed sexual offenses, but at the military service academies commanders are under growing pressure to make sure their students are kept safe. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >>> the shooting in newtown has many debating the need for more gun control, but is a stricter gun law part of the answer. we're focusing on unde
the navy's big worry? women are still not confident their reports will be taken seriously. >> the chain of command is part of the problem. you are required to report the incident to your chain of command. oftentimes the assailant is your commander. >> reporter: at west point and the air force academy, the number of sexual assault incidents reported rose as well. while disturbing, the survey did find the at these schools women appear to be more comfortable going ahead and reporting...
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the rebels are cooking up something much more lethal. we're live in the town of the navy s.e.a.l. who gave his life. >>> plus, disturbing information about the owner of the plane who killed a lat tina superstar. stand by. you're in "the situation room." let's get right to our strategy session. joining us, the democratic strategist, hilary rosen and mary matalin. they are both making the case, get out from behind closed doors and negotiate the terms of the fiscal cliff deal in public. let's listen. >> i get nervous when two people disappear into a white house room and start making a grand alliance and they think, we're going to do this and get it out of the secret meetings and into the public venues to the american people and the congress themselves, we're responsible for making intelligent decisions. that should be done publicly. but at some point, after public debate and so forth, yes, private negotiations can help bridge the gap and bring us to a successful conclusion. >> mary, what do you think? will that be a kiss of death? >> i don't think there's time, wolf, the president ha
the rebels are cooking up something much more lethal. we're live in the town of the navy s.e.a.l. who gave his life. >>> plus, disturbing information about the owner of the plane who killed a lat tina superstar. stand by. you're in "the situation room." let's get right to our strategy session. joining us, the democratic strategist, hilary rosen and mary matalin. they are both making the case, get out from behind closed doors and negotiate the terms of the fiscal cliff deal in...
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he joined the navy in 2002 after graduating from high school and entered the s.e.a.l.s program the very next year. he received the bronze star and other awards during his ten-year career. >> a hero. >> yes, he indeed. >>> british banking giant hsbc agreed to pay $1.92 billion to settle a money laundering investigation here in the u.s. hsbc is accused of transferring billions of dollars for nations like iran doing business with firms linked to terrorism and enabling mexican drug cartels to move money illegally through u.s. subsidiaries. the settlement represents the largest pen the ever paid by a bank. >>> now pot is officially legal in colorado. people 21 and older may have up to 1 ounce of weed, smoke it, not in public and grow a small amount at home as well. the governor has created a task force to help implement the law. here's the problem. it's complicated. the federal government still says marijuana is illegal. >> rocky mountain high. i'll be the billionth person to say that. >>> countdown to double secret lift jop. the space plane is cleared to lift off at 1:05 p.m. eastern time f
he joined the navy in 2002 after graduating from high school and entered the s.e.a.l.s program the very next year. he received the bronze star and other awards during his ten-year career. >> a hero. >> yes, he indeed. >>> british banking giant hsbc agreed to pay $1.92 billion to settle a money laundering investigation here in the u.s. hsbc is accused of transferring billions of dollars for nations like iran doing business with firms linked to terrorism and enabling mexican...
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he was 28 years old and enlisted in the navy about a year after the aattacks on september 11th. almost immediately he started to train in special warfare operations and started to deploy to iraq and afghanistan where he earned numerous medals. he was from pennsylvania, and again, he was part of that naval special warfare development group, which is commonly known as s.e.a.l. team 6. >> give us a sense of the whole abduction and the rescue mission. what was behind this? >> well, there are conflicting stories. the u.s. forces in afghanistan are saying this is a taliban operation, while some of our afghan sources, some local leaders are saying these were smugglers. either way, this doctor, dr. joseph was working with afghan counterparts. he works for a nonprofit charity organization. they were out last wednesday visiting a rural clinics, and they were on their way back to headquarters in kabul when armed men basically stopped their vehicle and ordered them out and kidnapped them. after the charity was going back and forth, contacting some of the kidnappers, eventually the two afgha
he was 28 years old and enlisted in the navy about a year after the aattacks on september 11th. almost immediately he started to train in special warfare operations and started to deploy to iraq and afghanistan where he earned numerous medals. he was from pennsylvania, and again, he was part of that naval special warfare development group, which is commonly known as s.e.a.l. team 6. >> give us a sense of the whole abduction and the rescue mission. what was behind this? >> well,...
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navy marines. actually it's used by the marines. cnn national security contributor fran townsend joins me now from new york. fran is a member of both the cia and department of homeland security external advisory boards. good morning, fran. >> good morning, carol. >> when you look at the pictures on iranian state tv, is this an american drone or not in your eyes? >> well, it's clearly an american-made drone, right? as you mentioned, it's made by the boeing company, an american company that does in the aerospace defense sector, but, of course, the united states is not the only country that uses these drones. for example, the united arab emirates right across the persian gulf also uses scan eagles. it's not clear when the iranian it's captured this. american officials say they have accounted for all of their unmanned airlinal vehice -- aer vehicles in the middle east. it's unclear when the iranians seized this scan eagle, who it belongs to, and by the way as the pictures we have just shown demonstrate, this is a carefully orchestrated
navy marines. actually it's used by the marines. cnn national security contributor fran townsend joins me now from new york. fran is a member of both the cia and department of homeland security external advisory boards. good morning, fran. >> good morning, carol. >> when you look at the pictures on iranian state tv, is this an american drone or not in your eyes? >> well, it's clearly an american-made drone, right? as you mentioned, it's made by the boeing company, an american...
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the mission, to kill the world's most wanted man, osama bin laden. >> death of bin laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al qaeda. >> most have heard the incredible details of the bin laden compound raid, but little has been revealed about the intense, months' long deliberation that led to the final decision to act. so how was the decision made? who was told? how did they weigh the options? tonight we will ask the man tasked by the president to synthesize the intelligence, analyze the assessments, and run the decision-making process, to act in a sense as gatekeeper of this monumental decision. i sat down with national security adviser tom donilon in the secretary of war suite of the eisenhower executive office building. when you come into the white house, has the trail for osama bin laden gone cold? >> when we came into office at the beginning of 2009, the trail had gone cold. we really hadn't had a good case as to his whereabouts since he was at tora bora in 2001. >> what did the president say at this point? he tells leon panetta get bin
the mission, to kill the world's most wanted man, osama bin laden. >> death of bin laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al qaeda. >> most have heard the incredible details of the bin laden compound raid, but little has been revealed about the intense, months' long deliberation that led to the final decision to act. so how was the decision made? who was told? how did they weigh the options? tonight we will ask the man tasked by the...
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we're learning the name of an elite navy s.e.a.l. who was killed in the raid. barbara starr is taking us inside this secret operation. >> if you think the war in afghanistan is wrapping up, 305 american troops lost their lives so far this year. three navy s.e.a.l.s in the last three weeks in various combat missions. the latest, this young man who gave his life for another american he did not know. it was a daring high-stake to free a man who went to afghanistan to provide medical care in one of the most dangerous regions in the war-attorney country. >> we are hoping that we can instill hope into a country that has been dealing with conflict over the last 30 years. >> joseph was one of three staffers from the relief organization morning star development. kidnapped last wednesday while returning from a visit to a rural medical clinic. they were stopped by armed men and taken to an area about 50 miles from the pakistan border. then, this weekend, joseph was freed from captivity by the same unit of navy s.e.a.l.s that killed osama bin laden. it's not clear if any o
we're learning the name of an elite navy s.e.a.l. who was killed in the raid. barbara starr is taking us inside this secret operation. >> if you think the war in afghanistan is wrapping up, 305 american troops lost their lives so far this year. three navy s.e.a.l.s in the last three weeks in various combat missions. the latest, this young man who gave his life for another american he did not know. it was a daring high-stake to free a man who went to afghanistan to provide medical care in...
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navy has to buy less advanced fighter jets. or the pentagon would have to cut the number of soldiers and marines back to the levels before 9/11. >> sequestration would risk hollowing out our force. >> reporter: pentagon officials say going over the cliff would actually leave them a trillion dollars in the hole because it comes on top of cuts they have already budgeted for. >> we've put in place $487 billion in savings over the next ten years. >> reporter: are these cuts the same sort of budget cuts that you and i think of when we think of cutting our budget? >> i call them phantom cuts. it's not a real saving. >> reporter: freeman says the pentagon is counting money that it was projecting to spend as savings. which he says, isn't the same as simply spending less. >> but this is the way d.c. does math. it's unfortunate that you and i can't do our taxes like. that but it's the way they seem to do business here. >> reporter: a senior defense official admits that everyone at the pentagon from the secretary on down is on autopilot t
navy has to buy less advanced fighter jets. or the pentagon would have to cut the number of soldiers and marines back to the levels before 9/11. >> sequestration would risk hollowing out our force. >> reporter: pentagon officials say going over the cliff would actually leave them a trillion dollars in the hole because it comes on top of cuts they have already budgeted for. >> we've put in place $487 billion in savings over the next ten years. >> reporter: are these cuts...
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we also know the u.s. navy is in the process moving up to four ships into position. mostly to monitor the launch. but if fragments veer off course, they would be in position to defend some of our allies in the region. also due to that concern, japan is also mobilizing a couple patriot missile batteries, only in the event it has to shoot down fragments that veer over japanese territory. right now, from what we know, we expect the launch to follow the sameath mostly as its failed launch in april. in that case, take a look. it would fly south, not east over japan. if it works, the first stage of the rocket would fall somewhere off the coast of south korea. the second stage of the rocket would fall in the philippines or near the philippines. a satellite is light weight compared to a one ton nuclear war head, but a lot of technology used to put a satellite in orbit is the same technology you can use to develop long range ballistic missiles. >> because that failed launch in april, what, it stayed in the air less than a minute or so, are they basically trying to do the same
we also know the u.s. navy is in the process moving up to four ships into position. mostly to monitor the launch. but if fragments veer off course, they would be in position to defend some of our allies in the region. also due to that concern, japan is also mobilizing a couple patriot missile batteries, only in the event it has to shoot down fragments that veer over japanese territory. right now, from what we know, we expect the launch to follow the sameath mostly as its failed launch in april....
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i think the most important part of cullen jones' story is that he got to grow up. i love hearing what these kids want to be when they grow up. >> a navy s.e.a.l. >> a teacher. >> a lifeguard. >> josh didn't get to grow up, but he's with me every day. >> good job! [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, my cnn hero, my hero, the new comfortable swimmer, my other mom, miss wanda butts. [ applause ] >> first i must thank god for the opportunity and the privilege to be here today. my hope is that all children are taught to swim and to be safe in and around the waters. our responsibility as adults is to give them this basic life skill. my son, josh, is my hero, because his life gave my life meaning. next sunday would be his 23rd birthday. happy birthday, josh, i love you. thank you. [ applause ] >>> please welcome a supporter of the one word kid charity, rico rodriguez. >> by working together we can solve problems, even big ones. this is what a young wonder does. they look at a problem in a creative way and say i'm going to fix this, and that is exactly what cassandra lyn
i think the most important part of cullen jones' story is that he got to grow up. i love hearing what these kids want to be when they grow up. >> a navy s.e.a.l. >> a teacher. >> a lifeguard. >> josh didn't get to grow up, but he's with me every day. >> good job! [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, my cnn hero, my hero, the new comfortable swimmer, my other mom, miss wanda butts. [ applause ] >> first i must thank god for the opportunity and the...
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navy drone and doesn't belong to the cia. the white house says -- >> we have no evidence that the iranian claims you cite are true. >> reporter: the iranians say the unmanned aerial vehicle is a scan eagle, a small drone made by a boeing subsidiary named insitu. it's only 4 feet long with a 10-foot wingspan. iranian officials say the one they display was captured by revolutionary guard anti-aircraft squad. would it take an anti-aircraft squad to bring one of these down? >> brian, that's hard to believe, because this is a very small uav. it weighs in at 40 pounds, on average. so the idea that some kind of artillery piece would blast this thing out of the sky doesn't seem believe because that would shatter it to bits. >> reporter: lee and other experts tell us the drone on display in iran could have been downed by weather or a navigation problem. a year ago, iran claimed to have shot down another u.s. drone, the high-altitude rq-170 sentinel. u.s. officials said it had crashed in the iranian desert after leaving a base in afgha
navy drone and doesn't belong to the cia. the white house says -- >> we have no evidence that the iranian claims you cite are true. >> reporter: the iranians say the unmanned aerial vehicle is a scan eagle, a small drone made by a boeing subsidiary named insitu. it's only 4 feet long with a 10-foot wingspan. iranian officials say the one they display was captured by revolutionary guard anti-aircraft squad. would it take an anti-aircraft squad to bring one of these down? >>...